Jennifer Galvão is the 2025-2026 Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Her first novel MARIA, MARIA is forthcoming with Random House in 2027.

A graduate of the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program, Jen is the recipient of the 2023-2025 Kenyon Review Fellowship in Fiction.

Her short fiction has been published or is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Rumpus, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and The Masters Review.